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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Thomas King Esq"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Thomas King Esq")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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11735 results for: Keyword - Thomas King, Esq.
We found 5449 matches on Author, 3212 matches on Performance Comments, 2694 matches on Performance Title, 2194 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

10851
09 October 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and Shewed [Mrs Pierce and Mrs Clifford] The Chances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

10852
21 October 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Against my judgment and conscience (which God forgive, for my very heart knows that I offend God in breaking my vows therein) to the Opera, which is now newly begun to act again, after some alteracion of their scene, which do make it very much worse; but the play, Love and Honour, being the first time of their acting it, is a very good plot, and well done. Downes (pp. 21-22): This Play was Richly Cloath'd; The King giving Mr Betterton his Coronation Suit;...The Duke of York giving Mr Harris his...and my Lord of Oxford gave Mr Joseph Price his...and all the other Parts being very well done: The Play having a great run, Produc'd to the Company great Gain and Estimation from the Town

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumphs of Love and Honour Author(s): Thomas Cooke

10853
28 October 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary To the Theatre, and there saw Argalus and Parthenia, where a woman acted Parthenia, and came afterwards on the stage in men's clothes, and had the best legs that ever I saw, and I was very well pleased with it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Argalus And Parthenia

10854
01 November 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To The Joviall Crew

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

10855
12 November 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I to Bartholomew Fayre, with puppets which I had seen once before, and the play without puppets often, but though I love the play as much as ever I did, yet I do not like the puppets at all, but think it to be a lessening to it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

10856
18 November 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre to see Philaster, which I never saw before, but I found it far short of my expectations. [An undated edition, the Sixth Impression, was published, probably, in this year, with no cast, no prologue, no epilogue.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Related Works
Related Work: The Restoration; or, Right Will Take Place Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

10857
25 November 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Sir W. Pen and I to the Theatre, and there saw The Country Captain, a dull play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Captain

10858
26 November 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: It is uncertain at which theatre this play was performed, but it has been assigned to the King's Company because Pepys saw that company act it on the following day, 27 Nov. Evelyn, Diary: I saw Hamlet Pr. of Denmark played: but now the old playe began to disgust this refined age; since his Majestie being so long abroad

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

10859
27 November 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Captain Ferrers and Mr Moore and I to the Theatre, and there saw Hamlett very well done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

10860
10 December 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play appears in Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117, preceding 11 Dec., with no date assigned. See also 11 March 1661@2

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dancing Master

10861
11 December 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vittoria Corombona

10862
13 December 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Captain

10863
16 December 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

10864
18 December 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

10865
20 December 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Curate

10866
23 December 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tamer Tamed

10867
28 December 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aglaura

10868
30 December 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. Pepys, Diary: And so home to Sir W. Pen, who with his children and my wife has been at a play to-day and saw D'Ambois, which I never saw

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bussy D'ambois

Related Works
Related Work: Bussy D'Ambois; or, The Husbands Revenge Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey

10869
01 January 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Seeing that the Spanish Curate was acted to-day, I...home again and sent to young Mr Pen and his sister to go anon with my wife and I to the Theatre...we went by coach to the play, and there saw it well acted, and a good play it is, only Diego the Sexton did overdo his part too much. [Sir Edward Browne seems to connect this play with the Duke's Company. See Introdutcion to 1661-1662.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Curate

10870
06 January 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Devil Of Edmonton

10871
11 January 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Related Works
Related Work: The Restoration; or, Right Will Take Place Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

10872
21 January 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

10873
28 January 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

10874
05 February 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary [Sir W. Pen] and I and my wife to the Theatre...and there saw Rule a Wife and have a Wife very well done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

10875
06 February 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: This play was seen by Jacques Thierry and Will Schellinks (Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 333, 335). As this play was presented by the King's Company on 15 Nov. 1660 and again on 30 Dec. 1661, it was probably given at Vere St.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Cruelty